It’s natural to lose a bit of self-confidence after going through breast cancer. Your body changes. You may have lost your hair. You may have gone through a mastectomy. The smallest things can help you feel like yourself again.

That’s why Claire Louise Willis‘ work is so important – Claire’s website is ift.tt/2p2XScs

‘As a Permanent Makeup artist, I would see clients for eyebrow enhancements who were about to go through chemotherapy for Breast cancer,’ Claire Louise told metro.co.uk. ‘I knew then Medical tattooing was something that I needed to train in.’

‘When I speak to my ladies about the journey they have been on, the trauma and sometimes tragedies they go through, it simply would not sit comfortably with me to get out my card machine and ask for a payment.

‘This needs to be a pleasant end to what is a very difficult journey.’

The process is fairly simple. The Permanent Cosmetic Academy now has machinery that delivers pigment into the skin in a speedy way that can create the shading of the areola, the 3D effect of the nipple, and all the details of the surrounding glands, creating a super realistic finished nip.

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‘My ladies often say once they have had the treatment they feel whole again.

‘It is interesting that with a lot of cases, ladies feel that the reconstructed breasts do not feel part of them, so to have a life-like areola makes the breasts feel par of them and real again.’

Since the tattoo artist introduced the new tattooing technique, she’s been inundated with requests. The clinic is now fully booked until March 2018. Claire Louise now wants to help to train other artists in the style to meet the demand.
‘We all strive for happiness, and at times we all need a leg up,’ says Claire Louise. ‘I am fortunate enough to have the skill set that can make a difference to somebody’s life.